Sir Charles Abney-Hastings

M, b. 1 October 1792, d. 1858
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7th cousin 4 times removed of John Kennedy BROWN Jr.
Portrait of Sir Charles Abney-Hastings Bart, as high sheriff of Derbyshire, 1825. Portrait by John Jackson.
     Sir Charles Abney-Hastings, son of General Sir Charles Hastings and Lady Parnell ABNEY, was born on 1 October 1792 in Willesley, Derbyshire, England. He never married, and passed Willesley to his cousin, Edith Maud (not a descendant of the Abney family) who changed her name to Edith Abney-Hastings. He had succeeded his father, Gen. Sir Charles, 30 Sep 1823. On 1 Dec 1823 Sir Charles, out of respect to the memory of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Abney, of Willesley, obitained his Majesty's royal licence and authority that he and his descendants might take and use the surname, and bear the arms of Abney, in addition to and before that of Hastings, and that his younger brother, Frank Hastings, Esq., might likewise use the same. The Abney-Hastings family still owns Willesley to this day.1

Sir Charles Abney-Hastings died in 1858.
Last Edited=18 Mar 2016

Citations

  1. [S904] "The London Gazette" , 13 Dec 1823, pg. 2072.

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